[extropy-chat] Greens do well in Oz elections

[Damien Broderick]

In the Australian national federal election, the conservatives have been 
returned to office. At 77% of the vote counted last night, the Green had 
scored 7% of the primary vote, up 2%. The racist & brainless One Nation 
party got 1.1%, down 3.2%.

On TV in the USA, Kerry gave what Barbara and I regarded as a deftly 
supple, concise and principled extempore reply about abortion and govt 
funding. To our astonishment, Bush rose and candidly admitted he couldn't 
understand it. ABCNews begged to differ with our assessment and implicitly 
endorsed Bush's stupidity:

<Asked about abortion, Kerry, who supports a woman's right to have an 
abortion, noted that he was a Roman Catholic but said he could not let his 
faith influence his decision. In a long, rambling answer...>

Sigh.

Damien Broderick